Method for making mop heads



1. April 26, 1927. E. JUMONVILLE 625 857 METHOD FOR MAKING HOP HEADS Filed Dec.'2, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 m: a xzmmon I 1,62 April 26,1927. E'IJUMONVILLE 5857 METHODFOR MAKING MOP HEADS Filed D90. 2. 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

2 1927. E. JUMONVILLE ammo ron mane nor HEADS Filed Dec, 2. 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 E' INVEHIOR "l'ITORIBY Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

EDWARD J'UMONVILLE, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

METHOD FOR MAKING M01? HEADS.

Application filed December 2, 1925. Serial No. 72,754.

This invention relates 'to methods for forming and making wringer-mopheads.

Its objectis to expedite and facilitate the manufacture of. mop-heads; and, it considerably reduces the cost.

Several acts or operations comprise the new method.

Apparatus useful in applying the method is illustrated in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in diagram showing a helically wound mop-head in process of manufacture.

Fig. 2 is the same with cross-stitching added to form opposite sets of loops or bights in the mop-head.

F ig. 3 shows further addition of binding ties threaded through opposite sets of loops in the mop-head, the mop-form having been collapsed for convenient removal of the mop-head.

Fig. 4 shows an assembled wringer-mop,

the loops of one end of the mop-head being bound to the end of the mop-handle and the other set of loops being bound to the hand rm. h Fig. 5 is a view in diagram of a convenient collective arrangement for practical application of my method of making mopheads.

lVringer mop-heads are usually made from stranded textile material provided in coils of continuous round yarn, the strand being about one quarter of an inch in diameter.

One of these coils is shown at 1.

In applying the new method, the yarn is helically wound from the coil to the mopform 2, Figure 1.

This may be conveniently accomplished by mounting a mop-form on any suitably revoluble support upon which the mopform is made to revolve upon an axis as indicated at 3.

A helical or master screw 4 is positioned parallel to the axis of revolution of the mop-form and is geared to revolve therewith synchronously.

Pitch of the master screw (purposely exaggerated in the drawings) should be slightly greater than twice the diameter of the yarn, for reason hereafter explalned.

Winding carriage 5 is mounted 011 the master screw aforesaid and is provided with eyelet or yarn guide 6.

When the master screw is revolved the carriage and yarn move in direction as indicated by the arrow 7 Figs. end of the strand having to cleat, 8.

hen yarn sufficient to complete the mophead has been wound upon the form as shown at 9, the revolving support is stopped.

The yarn is then cut, and its free end is fascitened to the clip or cleat 10, Figs. 1 an 5.

The carriage is now returned to the initial position to make ready for another winding or another mop-head.

In the drawing the winding of the mop head is shown as completed, the yarn having been cut and the carriage as returned to the initial position for another winding.

Then the mop-form with the unfinished mop-head wound thereon is removed from the revoluble support.

Next two or more rows of cross-stitching 11 are made by hand, sewing machine or other suitable means, to form two opposite sets of loops 12 and 13 and to fasten the strands together, Fig. 2.

The end of the mop-form is removed to facilitate bringing the loops of the mophead together and threading the ties 14 and 15 as shown in Fig. 3.

Completion of the mop-head is effected by its removal from the form, tying one set of loops to the hand grip as at 16 and the other set of loops to the mop-handle as at 17, Fig. 4.

As stated above, the pitch of the master screw, and consequently that of the resulting helix formed by winding the yarn on the mop-form, should be slightly greater than twice the diameter of the yarn. This will put the strands in adjacent relation and, when sewn and removed from the mopform, the strands will be found to be sub stantially parallel. For clearer illustration, the helix of yarn has been shown as wound on the mop-form in exaggerated pitch.

convenient arrangement for applying the new method is shown in Fig. 5. One operative can control two mop-forms each winding three mop-heads. While one mopform is in the winding, the other can be discharged and replenished. The description of the single arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 3 and 4 applies also to the collective arrangement shown in Fig. 5.

For the purpose of illustration and disclosure, I have described elementary operations comprising my method, but the inven- 2 and 5, the been first secured the strands thus wound and then removing the mop from the form.

2. The method of making mop-heads which includes helically winding, yarn on a form where the helix is laid with a pitch equal substantially to two diameters of the yarin then cross-stitching in a single layer the strands thus wound then threading with binding means opposite sets of loops thus formed and then removing the mop from the form.

EDlVARD J UMO NVILLE. 

